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| Ralph Ziadie |
Stats Updated Through: 2/2/2009
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| 2008 Stats: | | Starts | | 280 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 37-34-42 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $759,167 (341) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 13% (40%) |
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Top Associated Horses:
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Unseparable,
Milicat,
Miss Motion,
Sir Oso,
Trippi's Greatstar,
Dukes Flying Tiger |
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Born: Oct. 30, 1938, Kingston, Jamaica … Resident: Miramar, Fla. … Family: wife Terry, sons Ralph, Gordon and Kirk (a fellow trainer), daughter Katherine … Racing Background: Born in Jamaica of Lebanese descent, Ziadie followed his grandfather Tewfik and uncles Millard and Victor into racing … Became a successful trainer in Jamaica, conditioning 1970 Jamaican Derby winner Royal Crest, before immigrating to South Florida in 1977 … Spent five years operating a restaurant and selling cars before returning to training at Calder Race Course in 1982 … Training Career: Captured three straight Calder training titles starting in 1990. Also tied for leading trainer at Calder's Tropical meet in 1999 … Inducted into Calder Hall of Fame in 2001 … Saddled Reggae Man to track-record seven consecutive wins at Calder in 1985 … Best horse trained was Sir Bear, who retired in 2003 with 10 graded stakes wins and earnings exceeding $2.5 million … Sir Bear scored in grade 1 stakes at three different tracks – Aqueduct (1998 Cigar Mile), Belmont (1999 Met Mile) and Gulfstream (2001 Gulfstream Park Handicap) …Win by Sir Bear in the 2000 Texas Mile caped a day in which Ziadie runners won both of Lone Star Park's features with Tahkodha Hills having won the Lone Star Derby in the prior race … In 2003, conditioned Trust N Luck to score in the Fountain of Youth Stakes and Silver Wagon upset in the Hopeful Stakes in just his third career start … Ziadie-trained fillies Silk Concorde and Valid Forbes swept Calder's 2000 three-race Florida Stallion Stakes series … Other top runners have included Backatem, Constant Escort, Danger Ranger, Falconese, Hooting Star, Jennasietta, Migrating Moon and Royal Lad … Grade 1-placed Along the Sea, Ziadie's only Breeders' Cup starter, finished eighth in the 2005 Juvenile Fillies.
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NOTE: Stats include North American and selected international races. Click here to view selected international race list.
Biographies on jockeys, trainers and owners are from the Breeders' Cup World Championships events from 2001 through 2009, and are intended as informational resources. Biographies will be updated if an individual is again a participant in the Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Biographies are available for most horses appearing in the top 100 money earnings list, and/or for those who are frequently making headlines in the news starting with the 2006 Triple Crown season.
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